Purified of Arabs or of Jews

Music: Les Corps Glorieux. Part VII: Le Mystere de la Sainte Trinite.
By Olivier Messiaen. Sequenced by Serge Winitzki at Kunst der Fuge.

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Purified of Arabs or of Jews,
Until the phantoms fade the land will scream,
Remembering the slaughter of the dream,
In which dark deeds that only madmen choose
Made room for those no blessing could redeem.

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